Editing Rob Portman (section)

=== Immigration ===
In June 2018, Portman was one of 13 Republican senators to sign a letter to Attorney General [[Jeff Sessions]] requesting a moratorium on the [[Trump administration family separation policy]] while Congress drafted legislation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/393108-dozen-gop-senators-ask-administration-to-pause-separation-of/|title=13 GOP senators ask administration to pause separation of immigrant families|date=June 19, 2018|newspaper=[[The Hill (publisher)|The Hill]]}}</ref> In March 2019, he was one of a dozen Republicans who broke with their party, joining all Democrats, to vote for a resolution rejecting Trump's use of an emergency declaration to build a border wall.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cochrane |first1=Emily |last2=Thrush |first2=Glenn |title=Senate Rejects Trump's Border Emergency Declaration, Setting Up First Veto |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/us/politics/senate-vote-trump-national-emergency.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 14, 2019 }}</ref> He later co-sponsored a bill to provide for congressional approval of national emergency declarations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/member/rob-portman/P000449|title=Rob Portman|last=Portman|first=Rob|website=www.congress.gov|access-date=March 21, 2019}}</ref>

Portman opposed Trump's Muslim ban, saying the executive order was not "properly vetted" and that he supported the federal judges who blocked its implementation.<ref name="Timmons">{{cite web|last1=Timmons|first1=Heather|date=January 29, 2017|title=The short (but growing) list of Republican lawmakers who are publicly condemning Trump's "Muslim ban"|url=https://qz.com/897532/the-very-short-list-of-republican-congressmen-who-are-publicly-condemning-president-trumps-muslim-ban/|access-date=January 31, 2017|website=[[Quartz (publication)|Quartz]]}}</ref>